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Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000117172 at http://www.newrepublic.comCynthia OzickFrom the Stacks: "Why Coleridge?"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114022/kenneth-burke-samuel-taylor-coleridge-september-13-1939
In honor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who died 174 years ago today, we present to you Kenneth Burke's 1939 essay lauding Coleridge as a great champion of idealism.Each time I note the signs of the elite boom for Kierkegaard and Kafka, I am disgruntled. It should be Coleridge. Most assuredly,]]>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:02:00 +0000114022 at http://www.newrepublic.comKenneth BurkeThe Identity Crisis of Zadie Smithhttp://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/107209/reader-keep
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By Zadie Smith
(Penguin Press, 401 pp., $26.95)
IN COLLEGE, Zadie Smith began to lose her voice. When she “went up” to Cambridge—the British use a phrase suggesting ascension for enrollment at university—from the working-class neighborhood in northwest London where she grew up]]>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000107209 at http://www.newrepublic.comThe Limits of Feelinghttp://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/104208/wg-sebald-iaian-galbraith-poetry
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964–2001
By W.G. Sebald
Translated by Iain Galbraith
(Random House, 166 pp., $25)
THE REPUTATION OF an important writer will continue to swell in his or her absence, nourished by the unceasing attentions of friends, scholars, and devoted ]]>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:00:00 +0000104208 at http://www.newrepublic.comRuth FranklinThe Man Without Categorieshttp://www.newrepublic.com/article/books/the-man-without-categories
The Assistant
By Robert Walser
Translated by Susan Bernofsky
(New Directions, 301 pp., $16.95)
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By now the snapshot of the dead Robert Walser has become one of German literature's most often reprinted and commented-upon photographs, its unstaged, accidental existence only]]>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +000064328 at http://www.newrepublic.com